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Bhagavati Sutra Bk. 11 Ch. 10
तणं तस्स दारगस्स णामगोए वि पहीणे भवइ णो चेव णं ते देवा लोगंतं संपाउणति ।
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(continent)
A. 71. Gautama ! The island called Jambudvipa is at the centre of all the isles and oceans. Its circumference is slightly more than 3,16,227 yojanas, 3 krośas, 128 dhanus and 13 angulas. If six gods with great fortune, till great happiness stand at different points all over the cülika of Mount Mandāra and underneath four Dikkumāris (goddesses of the directions) stand in four directions on the soil of Jambudvipa with sacrificial offerings in their hands with their faces turned outwards, and if the goddesses throw out the sacrificial offerings simultaneously, and if each god is capable of dashing forward with a tremendous speed to catch the offering before it touches the ground, and if with such a superhuman speed, one god dashes in the east, one in the west, one in the north, one in the south, one up and one down, and just then a gathāpati has a son born to him with a life-span of one thousand years, and after this, the parents of the boy pass away even in that much time the gods cannot reach the end of the universe. And after that the boy completes his life-span and passes away, and still the gods cannot reach the end of the universe. Add then a very long time passes during which the bones and marrows of the boy are wholly dilapidated, and still they cannot reach the end. And then since the boy's death, seven generations pass, but still they are no where near the end. And after that, the name and lineage of the boy is wholly wiped out, even walking fast till that time the gods cannot reach the end of the universe.
प्रश्न ७२ - तेसि णं भंते! देवाणं किं गए बहुए अगएवी बहुए ?
Q. 72. Bhante ! Is the part of the universe already traversed bigger, or, is the untraversed part bigger ?
उत्तर ७२ - गोयमा ! गए बहुए णो अगए बहुए गयाउ से ' अगए असंखेज्जइभागे अगयाउ से गए असंखेज्जगुणे लोए णं गोयमा ! ए महालए
पण ।
